Positive results.

[TrapperMike]

What’s everyone doing with their deer if it tests positive. One of mine was, but I just got results and deer has already gone through the butcher shop anis now sausage. Have already eaten some.

[DLab]

My venison stays triple wrapped in the freezer till I get the test results back ,every year.I make my own sausage but even that is enough cost to warrant waiting rather than throwing good after bad.
I got my first positive this year on an Antlerless Mule, and although there has been no recorded cases of it crossing over to humans in the 50 years it's been known, in the BFI bin all of it went.
Sigh.....

[crazy_davey]

I have to ask, what’s the point of getting it tested if people are just running deer to the butcher without having results? Couldn’t there be contamination at that particular butcher shop now?

Wouldn’t it make sense to have to show proof that the animal is CWD free before being able to have it butchered at a butcher shop?

I have never sent one in for testing so these are just questions that come to my mind when reading threads like this one…

[MooseRiverTrapper]

When the general public finds out about CWD. Butchers shops won’t be allowed to process wild game where they handle inspected meat.

[reddeerhunter]

I have never tested deer nor care to. One chimp in a million tests I will roll with my chances.

More worried about winning the lottery and everyone asking for handouts.


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[501s]

From what I've read, killing the Prions is very very difficult and time consuming. So when a CWD deer goes through a butcher, isn't everything going to be technically contaminated? How many deer go through the butchers that aren't tested and are POSITIVE?

Seems like you can do your best to avoid CWD, but if you hunt and don't test your animals every time, or if you ever take your meat to a wild game butcher, you are at risk, no matter how small that risk is.

[Dubious]

I put it in the Green bin and it goes to the dump as per government website. I also test all the animals whether they are in cwd zone or not.

[CBintheNorth]

I would eat it and enjoy it.

Unless the butcher you go to totally sterilizes and cleans out his entire operation between each animal, chances are you have come into contact with CWD many times over.

We always butcher our own and never make any cuts with the bone in.
Never tested a deer and I've eaten a lot from CWD zones. Still standing.

[FinnDawg]

Originally Posted by TrapperMike

What’s everyone doing with their deer if it tests positive. One of mine was, but I just got results and deer has already gone through the butcher shop anis now sausage. Have already eaten some.

Yikes.

[Who Da Fisherman]

For the people who got test results back positive and will not eat it, give it away! Why let it go to waste. Note I do not test mine.
WDF

[eyeflyer]

Originally Posted by FinnDawg

Yikes.

CWD is not that new, we have eating deer with it for decades

[Jamie Black R/T]

Originally Posted by eyeflyer

CWD is not that new, we have eating deer with it for decades

Yep and anyone using a wild game butcher shop has eaten meat tainted with it 100%.

there's no avoiding it. I know lots of people in the hot zones that don't believe it exists and run a number of animals through the local shops each year.

Never complied with mandatory testing at all.

Not possible they never had some positive animals in their freezers. I've shot 3 muley bucks in that area in the last 10 years and every single one tested positive.

[eyeflyer]

Originally Posted by Jamie Black R/T

Yep and anyone using a wild game butcher shop has eaten meat tainted with it 100%.

there's no avoiding it. I know lots of people in the hot zones that don't believe it exists and run a number of animals through the local shops each year.

Never complied with mandatory testing at all.

Not possible they never had some positive animals in their freezers. I've shot 3 muley bucks in that area in the last 10 years and every single one tested positive.

Yes when they completed the cull they found 97% of those infected were mule bucks.

[elkhunter11]

Originally Posted by reddeerhunter

I have never tested deer nor care to. One chimp in a million tests I will roll with my chances.

More worried about winning the lottery and everyone asking for handouts.


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I have never won a lottery, but we did take a CWD positive mule deer, a couple of yers ago.

[Lefty-Canuck]

I won’t knowingly eat a positive one or feed it to friends or family. Had 3 so far.

LC

[Pathfinder76]

Someone has to be the first person to contract it. Right? Maybe?

[colt45]

We do up own wild game , have got deer tested when required never had a failed test
I have no problem eating deer or elk or moose or bear that are not tested been doing it for 50 some years
I never wait for the test we start eating as soon as we get the animals
I believe it was probably always in deer to start with, natures way of getting rid of overcrowding in the wild
Maybe to government meet Is just trying to get you to not eat wild meat so They can sell you there juiced up meat so they can further control what you eat and do - just saying

[FinnDawg]

Originally Posted by eyeflyer

CWD is not that new, we have eating deer with it for decades

Originally Posted by Jamie Black R/T

Yep and anyone using a wild game butcher shop has eaten meat tainted with it 100%.

there's no avoiding it. I know lots of people in the hot zones that don't believe it exists and run a number of animals through the local shops each year.

Never complied with mandatory testing at all.

Not possible they never had some positive animals in their freezers. I've shot 3 muley bucks in that area in the last 10 years and every single one tested positive.

I butcher my own and get mine tested. Never had a positive and wouldn’t eat one if it was.

[75ft Arborist]

Originally Posted by Pathfinder76

Someone has to be the first person to contract it. Right? Maybe?

Exactly! Zombie Apocalypse needs to start some how.

[CBintheNorth]

Originally Posted by Lefty-Canuck

I won’t knowingly eat a positive one or feed it to friends or family. Had 3 so far.

LC

Ignorance is bliss!

[CBintheNorth]

Originally Posted by Pathfinder76

Someone has to be the first person to contract it. Right? Maybe?

Or not....
Why does there have to be a first?

I'd bet money thousands of infected animals have been eaten. Still no evidence of even one cross over.
Sounds pretty safe to me.
Lots of stuff affects animals but doesn't cross to humans.

Now a sickly, unhealthy deer I would never eat, no matter what it had.
But then I wouldn't shoot it in the first place, so not a concern.

[reddeerhunter]

Good for guys who shoot small bucks. Test positive. Get another tag next yr.

[marky_mark]

Originally Posted by reddeerhunter

Good for guys who shoot small bucks. Test positive. Get another tag next yr.

That’s not the way it works anymore

[lone wolf]

Originally Posted by reddeerhunter

Good for guys who shoot small bucks. Test positive. Get another tag next yr.

Incorrect. They no longer issue replacement tags. You have to join the queue like everyone else, no preferential treatment.

[Pathfinder76]

Originally Posted by reddeerhunter

Good for guys who shoot small bucks. Test positive. Get another tag next yr.

Good grief.

[Dubious]

This is a great thread.

[marky_mark]

Originally Posted by Dubious

This is a great thread.

Reminds me of the Covid threads

[501s]

This was a CWD deer I shot at the end of October with my bow a year back. He still had velvet and he was so skinny you could visibly see his spine. His neck was also very thin. When we found him, my 12 year old son started dragging him out of the bush and we thought "Huh, that seemed pretty easy", then we got to inspect him and see just how sick he was. We of course did not eat him.

[3blade]

I cut and vac seal my own, and test every animal, wait for the results before eating. Been lucky so far, no positives, and I would not eat a positive.

Every butcher shop that does wild game is potentially contaminated. Even worse their methods often involve cutting through the spine. And yes I have eaten wild game from a butcher shop, as well as domestic meat. A guy can only control so much. Make smart choices, but accept that living comes with the risk of death.

[reddeerhunter]

Originally Posted by Pathfinder76

Good grief.

It was a joke man.


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